Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. See our User Agreement and Privacy Policy.

Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. See our Privacy Policy and User Agreement for details.

Chapter 1

2.
<ul><li>History is a story that tells us who we are … by telling us who we were. </li></ul><ul><li>The story must tie facts together, but there is no need to have all the information to tell the story </li></ul><ul><li>Stories from the past combine to help us tell our story </li></ul>

3.
<ul><li>Time before the development of writing </li></ul><ul><li>Scientists say it may go back hundreds of thousands of years </li></ul><ul><li>No documented “story” without writing </li></ul><ul><li>Really belongs to scientists and archaeologists </li></ul><ul><li>Many human advances, including the ability of humans to domesticate agriculture – leads to settlements </li></ul>

4.
<ul><li>Civilizations developed along major river systems all over the world </li></ul><ul><li>Some settlements are tens of thousands of years old </li></ul><ul><li>Rivers brought not just water, but silt as well, which fertilized the land </li></ul><ul><li>Certain rivers are predictable in their floods </li></ul>

5.
<ul><li>Mesopotamia: Tigris and Euphrates </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Civilization was called Sumer </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Mesopotamia means “between the rivers” </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>3300 BC </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Issues: </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Flooding of the valley due to the rivers </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Epic of Gilgamesh described as a flood that will destroy the world as they new it </li></ul></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Archeologists have found this to be true of the area </li></ul></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Built large dikes to corral the water to be used for drinking and irrigation </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>What geographical characteristics made the Fertile Cresent a good place to develop? </li></ul></ul>

6.
<ul><li>Tigris and Euphrates Rivers </li></ul><ul><li>Modern Day Iraq </li></ul><ul><li>Invented Writing: Cuneiform (Wedge-shaped writing) </li></ul><ul><li>Government: City-states </li></ul><ul><li>Religion: polytheistic and tied to nature using temples as a place of worship (page 32 of textbook) </li></ul><ul><li>Epic of Gilgamesh: Flood story (page 35 text) </li></ul><ul><li>Hammurabi's Code: equality before the law </li></ul>

8.
<ul><li>After invasion from numerous other civilizations what was the lasting legacy left by the Sumerians? </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Language </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Writing </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Astronomy and mathematics </li></ul></ul>